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Absen to Launch Aurora Series, the New Ultra-high Brightness LED Display

Leading international LED manufacturer Absen announced a brand-new LED display series designed to be used in medium to large DOOH installations. Boasting a 10,000-nit brightness, and with a 1280mm x 960mm standard panel size and 3 other optional sizes, the six new models of the Aurora Series are designed to create unmissable displays. Weighing only … Read more

Samsung To Boost Foldable, but LG still Hesitating on Smartphones

What They Say Nikkei reported that Samsung wants to boost the sales level of its folding smartphones to around the level of its Note series of smartphones at over 10 million handsets per year. It is reported to be developing a double-folding model that might be available at the end end of this year. Nikkei … Read more

Renesas Fire Adds to Chip Woes

What They Say Renesas has suffered a fire at is plant in Naka, (located in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture). The damage was limited to around 5% of the clean room area, and the plant’s 300mm wafer line has stopped production. There is no date set, yet for resumption. The 200mm line is continuing in production. What … Read more

Pollen in a Display

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What They Say Klaus Wammes, the CEO of Wammes and Partner, GmbH, posted a picture of pollen found in a flat panel display. He pointed out that exposed to any moisture, there is a potential for growth! What We Think The image is a good one. It’s quite a few years since I watched a … Read more

DVDO H.264/265 Encoder / Decoder Simplify Real-Time Visual Communication

DVDO®, leveraging over two decades of award-winning Pro AV video and data connectivity leadership, introduced DVDO-H264/5-Encoder and DVDO-H264/5-Decoder, designed to convert Full HD 1080p video from any HDMI source into high-quality H.264/5 streams over IP for use in video walls, matrices, and live broadcasts. “Our H.264/265 encoders and decoders turn high definition video into efficient … Read more

8K At The HPA Tech Retreat

The annual Hollywood Professional Association Technology Retreat is right up there with my favorite conferences. In fact, it might be at the top of the list, as the event always attracts top-notch presenters armed with meaty topics that span the range from image and audio acquisition and production to displays, media distribution, archiving, and business/economics/markets … Read more

The Institute of Helicopter Technology Takes a Next Step in Boosting its Helicopter Simulator Training with Barco 4K Visuals

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The institute of Helicopter Technology, part of the Aerospace and Geodesy Department at Technical University of Munich, recently took their helicopter simulation environment offering to a whole new level, upgrading their BO 105 helicopter with the latest cutting edge technology from Barco. project: syntropy was responsible for the upgrading on contract by ESG Elektroniksystem- und … Read more

Samsung Display’s OLED shipment dropped 9% from low iPhone 12 Mini sales

What They Say The Elec reported data from Omdia that showed that Samsung Display’s OLED shipments fell 9% in January from December to 45 million units because of low sales of the iPhone Mini. Samsung is reported to be sole supplier of OLEDs for the Mini. The overall OLED market hit 53 million units, also … Read more

Samsung Pushes Home Monitor Use

What They Say Samsung put out a very graphic-heavy post that showed the use of its S65UA wide screen monitor and how it can be used in a home PC set-uo What We Think Nothing very revolutionary here, but this is a nice presentation of a good product. Buyers would be very confident of what … Read more

New LED Technology Enables Emission of Circularly Polarized Light

There are real incentives to develop LED materials and device configurations that emit circularly polarized light. Using conventional approaches, close to half of the unpolarized light produced by an LED can be blocked by the circularly polarizing anti-glare filter that is typically attached to the uppermost surface of a LED-based display. Development of an LED … Read more